The original photograph was taken at the initial time of discovery, exact time being 15:22:30 Sirian Standard Time, on date 9-23-825.
Onto your second terms, I would be more than willing to issue reimbursement, however my forces have no dealt any damage to the facility nor have we harmed any workers in the region in any way that would require such reimbursement. Now should any incidents that would prove my ships' flight records wrong I would be more than happy to provide compensation for damages done, however to my knowledge no aggressive actions have been taken, ceasing after clarification from yourself in the matter some time ago. Therefore I reimbursement for not dealing any damages feels unjust to me, in my opinion.
I do understand how the message would come across and make those onboard begin to fear, but a swift addendum was given that would put rest to any concerns for safety anyone within the region of the facility would have. Do bear in mind, our intelligence reports we have the full brunt of the Unioner's primary forces, including most, if not all, of their capital ship assets engaged in full-scale warfare against us over the Bering system, putting ourselves in a very dangerous situation In order to tie up and beat down the Union menace in the region, we can spare so much before we get itchy. We must take every precaution to ensure our safety, unfortunately this, at the time, included an aggressive first-contact protocol with unidentified facilities within the region. Since the Unioners deployed nuclear weapons, we had to ensure this facility wasn't a threat to us, something I had hoped would come out with such aggressive first contact. As it proves, such approaches are not successful.
I do feel as if the facilities owners were hoping the facility would go unnoticed by most parties. The facilities administration refused to make any contact with us until some time after our communications had cleared up the matter. While I'm sure you were aware of the facility, given your swift response, we were not and I feel it was quite clear they would not communicate at all, which is saddening in all honesty, a simple matter can be resolved with words and it seems they had preferred an attack, and blood be spilled over misconceptions.